that's certainly an issue in its own right, yes - but matthew's gaffe is suggestive of the kind of post-hoc jiggery-pokery that shaped the bible's contents. as far as fulfilling prophecy goes, is it really prophecy if someone knowingly sets out to make it come true? zechariah could have had the messiah turning up walking backwards eating a pork pie - so long as any would-be messiah knows what he has to do :) and when all's said and done, the new testament was written decades after the fact, with the old testament near at hand, a desire to spread christianity burning in the breast, and nobody to say these prophecies hadn't been fulfilled. i respect your decision to believe they were, but i don't see any objective reason to agree.
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